Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carrier Bulwark had to be sailed hastily north from Mombasa with an infantry battalion embarked to establish a forward base at Aqaba on the Red Sea , through which supplies could be despatched to Amman by road . |
| 2 | Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty . |
| 3 | The case of street robbery is particularly interesting , because this is commonly the most sensitive area for registering public concern about crime and violence , itself reflected in the fact that robbery-with-violence was the only common offence for which an adult offender could be sentenced to whipping before the abolition of corporal punishment in 1948 . |
| 4 | In addition , any weaver caught using illegally dyed yarns could be sentenced to having his right arm cut off . |
| 5 | The Chamber of Deputies introduced an amendment which meant that politicians discovered making payments in order to secure votes could be sentenced to up to six years in prison . |
| 6 | With my electoral role number marked on the counterfoil , through a sorting process my vote and anyone else 's vote could be traced to who voted for who . |
| 7 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 8 | Indeed , the dilemmas for professionals in their ‘ multi-professional approach ’ could be traced to paradoxes within their different understandings of the meaning of ‘ disability ’ . |
| 9 | Puddephat 's anger , the paper said , could be traced to a most unflattering review of his new book , written by Sykes , in the TLS . |
| 10 | Since the demand for labour is a decreasing function of the real wage rate and the supply of labour is ( perhaps ) an increasing function of the real wage rate , they argued that the origins of general unemployment could be traced to the maintenance of a real wage rate , w 1 , which exceeded the market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 11 | Personally , I think that the trouble in Manchester could be traced to inadequacies regarding the stewarding arrangements . |
| 12 | It seems thought will be given to playing Tony Stanger in the centre to provide a bit more physique in defence and on that theme Michael Dods could be destined to be left out , not because he has played badly , but rather as a reflection that the powerhouse physiques are prone to get the better of him in escaping tackles . |
| 13 | Princess could be dragged to court as libel witness |
| 14 | From this nucleus , royal territory was in the future to expand to the point at which , in 1239 , the whole county could be annexed to the royal demesne . |
| 15 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 16 | In this way , the basic pattern in the egg could be transferred to the cells . |
| 17 | If it could be transferred to the road instead , even modest traffic would keep the road so warm that ice could never form . |
| 18 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 19 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 20 | preferred to play safe and order bodies which could be transferred to a narrow gauge system if the standard gauge system for which they were ordered proved a failure . |
| 21 | Or even that it could be transferred to your ownership . ’ |
| 22 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 23 | Some of the chimpanzees could be transferred to zoos , but the chimpanzees infected with AIDS must be cared for in special facilities until their deaths . |
| 24 | Where a seller was not in possession of a licence which could be transferred to the buyer at the date of completion of the contract it was decided that , the seller having failed to execute the contract , the purchaser could repudiate it : Day v. Luhke ( 1868 ) L.R. 5 Eq . |
| 25 | Boris Pyankov , discussed which sections of the armed forces stationed in the republic could be transferred to Moldovan control . |
| 26 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 27 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 28 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |
| 29 | And the experience they gathered could be channelled to us , keeping the New Internationalist in touch with the experience of peasants and ordinary working people . |
| 30 | Richard was immediately content , as he only was when something could be ascertained to the nearest degree of accuracy . |